And if I'm not mistaken, this next flight will also be their first attempt to recover the first stage by propulsive landing. Demonstrating such a capability would be a game changer in itself.
I've seen the footage of their initial propulsive tests (awesome) but had not realised they were planning a full blown test following a proper mission so soon. Really looking forward to seeing that!
Filippo Valsorda's online tool for checking web servers for the Heartbleed vulnerability is quite an eye opener. As well as telling you whether the server is vulnerable, it displays a small snippet of the memory it retrieved (there are scripts on Github that will show you the whole 64KB I believe).
In the quick tests I did on login.yahoo.com (used for Yahoo's email and probably all other Yahoo services), I saw three different user's passwords and at least part of their usernames. And you can just sit there refreshing the page to see more! Madness!
Lenovo were already in the smartphone market with several Android phones. In fact, they were the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, shipping 45.5 million smartphones in 2013. Looks like most of those were in emerging markets though, so the Motorola Mobility acquisition should give them a big step forward into the western markets.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
One of the main goals of HTML is to be that semantic format you wish for. It has taken years (far too many) for it to get to that point, but in general, it works. You mark up your content semantically with HTML and then leave all presentation to be taken care of with CSS. At least, that's what web developers should be doing nowadays. I'm not saying HTML is perfect, far from it in fact, but in conjunction with CSS it does already provide a means to separate content from presentation.
It is an improper extension of the scientific method to claim that everything* that lacks scientific evidence therefore does not or cannot exist.
I was very careful to not claim that. To have done so would be stupid. For the same reason, you can not disprove that I am riding a pink unicorn on the moon, although I would hazard a guess that you'd think that be extremely unlikely.
No scientific evidence. Fine, I accept that; scientific evidence is exactly what I would need in order to believe there is a god. Needing anything less seems crazy to me.
However, something that is strictly and purely supernatural (which God is pre-eminently) is by the very definition of the word "supernatural" beyond having a nature that science can speak about.
Oh, man, that old argument. By that reasoning, I had better be on the lookout for ghosts, fairies, goblins, magic unicorns and all manner of supernatural beings? Do you ever try walking through walls just in case it might work? Nobody can prove you don't have that supernatural ability.
So you're saying science can be improved over time, taking new evidence into account to provide a more accurate understanding of how the universe works? That's a good point; it's very much the opposite to religion that continues to hold fast to myth and legend.
Science is observable, testable, predictable and based on empirical evidence. Religion is based on myth, legend and anecdotal evidence. You can believe in both, but that rather suggests you don't really understand either.
The announcement on the mailing list says that developers need to send a signed email (signed with a key in the Debian keyring) to the Valve contact to request a redemption code. So my question is, what does it take to be recognised by Debian as a developer and get your key added to their keyring? Is this just for core Debian coders, or do documentation authors, package maintainers, etc, count too? This could be a great incentive for more people to get involved with the more mundane tasks that people usually shy away from, although if it's that easy, it would be ripe for abuse too.
From what I understand, the censoring (whether it is porn or file sharing sites) is all done by the ISP using their own choice of censoring system. With file sharing sites there were court orders listing specific sites, The Pirate Bay for example, handed down to the ISPs (the big ones at least) but the blocking mechanism is put in place by the ISP. I think for porn, the government / courts have nothing to do with which specific sites get blocked, it's just down to the crappy algorithms / blacklists put in place by the ISP.
When you only get to vote for a government once every 4 years, a lot of shit can happen in the 4 years preceding the next opportunity to get them out of power. Most (all?) democracies really aren't very democratic at all when it comes down to it.
Wow, I don't remember seeing that pic before (must be from the 2010 flyby) but it's just about to become my desktop wallpaper. Thanks!
On a side note, for anyone who's not looked at the night sky before through a telescope, you can see Saturn somewhat like it is in that image, with an entry level (ish) telescope from your back yard. I first saw Saturn through an old TAL-1 newtonian that can be bought for as little as £100 here in the UK and on a good night you'll get a sharper view of Saturn than shown in that image. Or you could pop along to your local astro meet (there's bound to be one near you) and have a look at some of these objects through varying sizes and designs of telescopes.
Seeing Saturn for the first time through a telescope is, in my experience and from what others frequently say too, jaw dropping amazing. Then take a look at Jupiter with the same telescope and you should be able to make out Jupiter's bands and some of its moons, maybe even the great red spot if you time it right. We've all seen them in photos but there's nothing quite like the knowledge that your eye is at the receiving end of actual photons being reflected by the planets, or being emitted from galaxies.
Aren't all string instructions essentially math instructions? In fact, aren't all software instructions of any type reducible to mathematics when you get down to the metal?
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Ah, ok, that makes good sense. Hopefully it all goes well and we'll see a dry, and soft, landing soon.
And if I'm not mistaken, this next flight will also be their first attempt to recover the first stage by propulsive landing. Demonstrating such a capability would be a game changer in itself.
I've seen the footage of their initial propulsive tests (awesome) but had not realised they were planning a full blown test following a proper mission so soon. Really looking forward to seeing that!
Filippo Valsorda's online tool for checking web servers for the Heartbleed vulnerability is quite an eye opener. As well as telling you whether the server is vulnerable, it displays a small snippet of the memory it retrieved (there are scripts on Github that will show you the whole 64KB I believe).
In the quick tests I did on login.yahoo.com (used for Yahoo's email and probably all other Yahoo services), I saw three different user's passwords and at least part of their usernames. And you can just sit there refreshing the page to see more! Madness!
Very useful, thanks!
Lenovo were already in the smartphone market with several Android phones. In fact, they were the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, shipping 45.5 million smartphones in 2013. Looks like most of those were in emerging markets though, so the Motorola Mobility acquisition should give them a big step forward into the western markets.
If the entire box is dead, wouldn't that imply mishandling during shipping?
Not necessarily. It could also be an awful batch of drives off a production line with really shit quality control.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
One of the main goals of HTML is to be that semantic format you wish for. It has taken years (far too many) for it to get to that point, but in general, it works. You mark up your content semantically with HTML and then leave all presentation to be taken care of with CSS. At least, that's what web developers should be doing nowadays. I'm not saying HTML is perfect, far from it in fact, but in conjunction with CSS it does already provide a means to separate content from presentation.
It is an improper extension of the scientific method to claim that everything* that lacks scientific evidence therefore does not or cannot exist.
I was very careful to not claim that. To have done so would be stupid. For the same reason, you can not disprove that I am riding a pink unicorn on the moon, although I would hazard a guess that you'd think that be extremely unlikely.
No scientific evidence. Fine, I accept that; scientific evidence is exactly what I would need in order to believe there is a god. Needing anything less seems crazy to me.
However, something that is strictly and purely supernatural (which God is pre-eminently) is by the very definition of the word "supernatural" beyond having a nature that science can speak about.
Oh, man, that old argument. By that reasoning, I had better be on the lookout for ghosts, fairies, goblins, magic unicorns and all manner of supernatural beings? Do you ever try walking through walls just in case it might work? Nobody can prove you don't have that supernatural ability.
So you're saying science can be improved over time, taking new evidence into account to provide a more accurate understanding of how the universe works? That's a good point; it's very much the opposite to religion that continues to hold fast to myth and legend.
Scientific reasoning is justification that there is no evidence for a god.
Science is observable, testable, predictable and based on empirical evidence. Religion is based on myth, legend and anecdotal evidence. You can believe in both, but that rather suggests you don't really understand either.
Looks like tepples comment answers my question. The Debian New Member process is outlined here.
You say you're out of here but I bet I see you, Anonymous Coward, posting here again.
The announcement on the mailing list says that developers need to send a signed email (signed with a key in the Debian keyring) to the Valve contact to request a redemption code. So my question is, what does it take to be recognised by Debian as a developer and get your key added to their keyring? Is this just for core Debian coders, or do documentation authors, package maintainers, etc, count too? This could be a great incentive for more people to get involved with the more mundane tasks that people usually shy away from, although if it's that easy, it would be ripe for abuse too.
From what I understand, the censoring (whether it is porn or file sharing sites) is all done by the ISP using their own choice of censoring system. With file sharing sites there were court orders listing specific sites, The Pirate Bay for example, handed down to the ISPs (the big ones at least) but the blocking mechanism is put in place by the ISP. I think for porn, the government / courts have nothing to do with which specific sites get blocked, it's just down to the crappy algorithms / blacklists put in place by the ISP.
How sensitive is this filter really? How does it affect the residents of
I think you forgot to complete the end of your sentence.
Secondly it's entirely voluntary. It's not even "opt-out". You have to make an actual choice whether to enable it or not during setup.
That depends on the ISP. New BT customers, for example, have blocking in place by default and have to opt-out if they wish to do so.
When you only get to vote for a government once every 4 years, a lot of shit can happen in the 4 years preceding the next opportunity to get them out of power. Most (all?) democracies really aren't very democratic at all when it comes down to it.
Archiving and backups springs to mind.
The OP mentions this is a home PC, so presumably they share it with family or housemates.
Wow, I don't remember seeing that pic before (must be from the 2010 flyby) but it's just about to become my desktop wallpaper. Thanks!
On a side note, for anyone who's not looked at the night sky before through a telescope, you can see Saturn somewhat like it is in that image, with an entry level (ish) telescope from your back yard. I first saw Saturn through an old TAL-1 newtonian that can be bought for as little as £100 here in the UK and on a good night you'll get a sharper view of Saturn than shown in that image. Or you could pop along to your local astro meet (there's bound to be one near you) and have a look at some of these objects through varying sizes and designs of telescopes.
Seeing Saturn for the first time through a telescope is, in my experience and from what others frequently say too, jaw dropping amazing. Then take a look at Jupiter with the same telescope and you should be able to make out Jupiter's bands and some of its moons, maybe even the great red spot if you time it right. We've all seen them in photos but there's nothing quite like the knowledge that your eye is at the receiving end of actual photons being reflected by the planets, or being emitted from galaxies.
Yeah, I really shouldn't have added my second sentence regarding 'all software instructions'. Typing faster than my brain was thinking and all that...
Hmm, good point! Maybe I should have said that all algorithms can be reduced to math.
Aren't all string instructions essentially math instructions? In fact, aren't all software instructions of any type reducible to mathematics when you get down to the metal?